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Fever Dream: A Psychological Thriller
Paperback
Mystery & ThrillerGeneral Fiction
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Apr 19 2022
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.72
Height: 0.58 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
It's 1962. Grace Solomon is locked inside the Texas State Lunatic Hospital. The doctors say her husband and children are gone. Grace knows they're alive.
Every night, Grace reminds herself of the same thing:
She is not what they say she is.
She is not confused.
She is not imagining things.
And she does not belong here.
Unfortunately, in 1962, being certain doesn't make a woman believable.
The doctors have pills.
Hydrotherapy.
Threats of a lobotomy.
And plenty of ways to make Grace question what she knows.
Then she meets Elizabeth.
Elizabeth is a frequent flyer at the hospital. Charming when she wants to be. Vicious when she doesn't. The nurses are afraid of her, the other patients watch her, and Elizabeth seems to understand exactly how the place works.
She may also be completely insane.
Grace likes her immediately.
Because Elizabeth knows how to get out.
The closer Grace gets to the truth about her family, the more dangerous the hospital becomes-and the more she begins to wonder whether Elizabeth is the only person telling her the truth.
Or simply the best liar in the building.
Grace came here determined to prove she isn't crazy.
Getting out may require convincing everyone that she is.
Fever Dream is a dark psychological thriller set in 1962 about an institutionalized woman no one believes, a dangerously charismatic roommate, medical control, gaslighting, and the terrifying difference between being insane and being treated like you are.
Read if you like:
- Psychological thrillers where no one believes the woman telling the truth
- Women trapped inside institutions controlled by men
- Unreliable reality, gaslighting, and mind games
- Female friendships where trusting the wrong woman could be fatal
- Dark historical settings with medical manipulation
- Asylums, lobotomies, and treatments more frightening than the patients
- Morally gray women who may be dangerous for very good reasons
- Fast-paced thrillers with shocking twists and an ending you won't see coming
- Shutter Island, The Silent Patient, and Girl, Interrupted
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